Device for stropping the blades of safety-razors.



PATENTED MAY 12, 1908.

J. F. MEDBERY. DEVICE FOR STROPPING THE BLADES OF SAFETY RAZORS.

APPLIOATION FILED FEB.12,1907.

animate z witnmeo JAMES FRANCIS MEDBERY, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OFCOLUMBIA.

DEVICE FOR STROPPING THE BLADES OF SAFETY-RAZORS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 12, 1908.

Application filed February 12, 1907. Serial No. 356,954.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMEs FRANoIs MED- BERY, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Washington, District of Columbia, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Strop ing the Bladesof Safet -Raz0rs, of which t e following is a speci cation. 7

My invention relates to devices for holdin razor blades while honing,stropping, or 0t 'erwise sharpening the same, and particularly to aholder which is designed for the cutting blades of the Gillette andother safety razors of a similar type.

The object of the invention is to provide a holder which is very simplein construction and cheap to manufacture, and one in which the blade maybe clamped and both edges of the blade honed or stro ped withoutremoving the same from the older.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in certainconstructions, combinations and arrangement of parts the preferred formof which will be first described in connection with the accompanyingdrawing and then the invention particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawing wherein the same part is designated by the samereference numeral wherever it occurs, Figure 1 is a pers ective Viewshowing the holder with a b ade of the Gillette type of safety razorclamped therein. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the holder in partlyopen position and Fig. 3 is a cross section of Fig. 1, through the claming portion of the holder.

1 esignates one portion of the handle and 2 the other portion, the twoarts being hinged together by means of the hinge 3. These parts areshaped to form convenient handles, and near the hinge portion the part 1is provided with holes 4 which are the same distance apart andcorrespondingly arranged to the holes 5 in the blade 6 of a razor of theGillette type. On the handle portion 2 I provide projections 7 whichcorrespond with the holes 4 and are adapted to enter the holes. Theseprojections, when the blade 6 is in position, pass through the openings5 of the blade and hold the blade in position. In the form of myinvention shown these projections are formed by striking up the body ofthe metal of the handle 2 and consequently forming on the under side ofthe handle depressions 8.

From the above description of my invention it will be seen that when ablade 6 provided with the holes 5 is placed in position over theprojections 7 of the handle portion 2, that the handle portion 1 may beswung over so that the projections will pass through the holes 5 in theblade and the holes 4 in the other handle portion, and thus clamp theblade securely in position between the handles 1 and 2. The blade maynow be stropped first on one edge and then on the other without thenecessity of removing the same from the handle.

From the above description it will be seen that my holder is composed ofbut two parts hinged together, and that the parts are so formed thateach part can be struck from a blank at a single operation.

While I have described what I believe to be the preferred form of myinvention, I desire to have it understood that many changes may be madein the form, construction and arrangement of parts without departingfrom the spirit of my invention.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is A holderfor holding safety-razor blades while sharpening the same, consisting ofa pair of sheet metal plates hinged together at their outer ends, andhaving handle-shaped inner ends, one of said plates being provided withopenings and the other with registering projections whereby a doubleedged cutting lade having openings therethrough will be clamped betweensaid members by the grasp of the hand on the handle portion of'theplates, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES FRANCIS MEDBERY. Witnesses:

' B. W. CARPENTER,

JAMES B. HOGE.

